Baum Character Registry · Person / intelligent being
King Phearse
A canonical individual in the Baum-only Character Census. Appearance evidence is chronological and text-grounded.
Title / role identifiedNarrative / historical individual
Registry
Character record
- Knowledge ID
- CHAR-0111
- Registry ID
- char-0111
- Canonical display name
- King Phearse
- Naming status
- Title / role identified
- Character type
- Person / intelligent being
- Participation
- Narrative / historical individual
- First matched appearance
- The Scarecrow of Oz · Ch. 10
Oz Knowledge Base
First-class Knowledge entity
This Character Registry record is a canonical first-class Knowledge entity.
- Claims
- 0
- Relationships
- 0
- Historical Atlas events
- 0
Appearance Profile
Text-grounded appearance
Appearance is tracked only where Baum supplies textual evidence; absence of description is not filled from illustration traditions.
Appearance Timeline
Appearance states
No enriched appearance state yet. The registry deliberately records “not yet extracted” rather than inferring hair, eyes, clothing, size, or materials.
Baum evidence
First matched textual evidence
ce, and as royal as any man in Jinxland." "How does that come?" asked Cap'n Bill. "My father used to be the King and Krewl was his Prime Minister. But one day while out hunting, King Phearse—that was my father's name—had a quarrel with Krewl and tapped him gently on the nose with the knuckles of his closed hand. This so provoked the wicked Krewl that he tripped my father backward, so that he fell into a deep pond. At once Krew